Lot Essay
A pair of vases of almost identical form, with the exception of eagle's head handles, were sold in these Rooms on 8th November 1999, lot 151.
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CIRCA 1820, IRON-RED SCRIPT MARKS
Details
A pair of Paris (Schoelcher) gold-ground two-handled vases
Circa 1820, iron-red script marks
Each of tapering flattened oval section with scroll, flowerhead and foliage handles, each painted with the Virgin with the Christ Child and St. John, the reverses emblematic of Europe and America, with a scantily-draped native American rescuing a nymph on a raft and with Columbus addressing a native American before a river-landscape with palm-trees, within richly gilt ciselé circular reeded cartouches tied with foliage on a matt gilt ground with ciselé flowerheads, the flared oval necks and spreading oval stems with bands of radiating palmettes, flowers and foliage, on rectangular gilt plinth bases with moulded gilt palmettes, flowerheads and foliage (the second with extended firing crack to rim and with wear to top rim)
14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) high (2)
Circa 1820, iron-red script marks
Each of tapering flattened oval section with scroll, flowerhead and foliage handles, each painted with the Virgin with the Christ Child and St. John, the reverses emblematic of Europe and America, with a scantily-draped native American rescuing a nymph on a raft and with Columbus addressing a native American before a river-landscape with palm-trees, within richly gilt ciselé circular reeded cartouches tied with foliage on a matt gilt ground with ciselé flowerheads, the flared oval necks and spreading oval stems with bands of radiating palmettes, flowers and foliage, on rectangular gilt plinth bases with moulded gilt palmettes, flowerheads and foliage (the second with extended firing crack to rim and with wear to top rim)
14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) high (2)
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